Now I confess I’ve been a bit sceptical about the concept of electric vehicles and whether they really will be the transport of the future. The cynic in me wonders whether this is just a way for the car manufacturers to be seen to doing something, even if they didn’t believe it would provide a long-term solution to reducing carbon emissions from cars. However, with the news that Renault has suspended three of its senior Read more…

I’d never heard the term ‘acoustician’ before until an email arrived from Audi the other day. It doesn’t take much brainwork though to figure out that it has something to do with sound – acoustics, get it? – and apparently the German car manufacturer has a team of ‘acousticians’ working on a very specific problem. Electric vehicles, we are told, are the thing of the future. Well, not the future, now in fact, and Audi Read more…

The UK Government has just announced that it plans to spend £100m on developing and rolling out an electric car program through major cities in the UK, to stay inline with their aim of reducing 80% of Carbon Emissions by 2050. Pollution – don’t worry, the Government’s on it But, to concentrate on the cities is very short-sited and does not eradicate the need for a fossil-fuel car one iota. For example, tomorrow, I have Read more…

The sound and pollution of the Formula 1 track is the reason we all go to see them, right? Well – perhaps in the future the racing may be a little bit different. The Formula Zero championship race has just been held, designed for Karts producing zero emissions. Is this the future of Formula 1? Silent running, no more pit stops for fuel, just pit stops for a re-charge and a new hydrogen cell? It Read more…

Perhaps as short a time as two years ago, we would not even have considered them. But electric cars have jumped up in sales from 90 in 2003 to 1,600 in 2008. Read more here. Which one would you choose for London?